[Hiring] Full Stack Engineer @Nametag

Role Description

We are looking for a Full Stack Engineer to own the platform foundations everything else at Nametag is built on.

• Own the data layer
• Own Postgres: schema design, migrations, indexing, query performance, connection management, and the operational health of the database under load.
• Design data models that make tenant isolation and data classification structural rather than conventional.
• Run migrations on live systems without downtime or data loss, including the large and awkward ones.
• Build data governance into the platform
• Implement retention, deletion, and minimization as enforced mechanisms, and verify they reach derived data, replicas, caches, and backups.
• Build access control and audit logging that scope and record access to sensitive data as a byproduct of normal operation.
• Produce the evidence that compliance obligations require directly from the systems, rather than reconstructing it by hand.
• Partner with security and GRC to turn contractual and regulatory commitments into technical controls that hold.
• Build for multiple regions
• Design and extend region-aware architecture: routing, storage, replication, and failover.
• Enforce data residency in the platform, so a row that must stay in a region cannot leave it through an ordinary code path.
• Handle the operational reality of multi-region — consistency, latency, deploys, and debugging something that only reproduces in one region.
• Own the API surface
• Design public APIs that are coherent, predictable, and pleasant to integrate against.
• Own versioning, deprecation, and backwards compatibility. Customers do not upgrade on your schedule.
• Build the authentication, authorization, rate limiting, and idempotency behavior that production APIs need.
• Operate what you build, and debug complex issues across services, data, and infrastructure.
• Build internal tooling and admin surfaces that give the rest of the company visibility into the platform.
• Improve reliability, observability, testing, and deployment. Review code and raise the technical bar.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating production backend systems.
• Deep PostgreSQL experience — schema design, query optimization, and migrations on live systems with real data.
• Strong backend skills in Go, Node.js, Python, Java, or similar, plus enough frontend ability to build internal tooling in React or a comparable framework.
• Experience designing and maintaining APIs used by real customers, including the versioning and compatibility discipline that entails.
• Hands-on cloud experience, AWS preferred, including storage, IAM, and encryption primitives.
• Experience handling sensitive or regulated data where access control, retention, and deletion were hard requirements rather than aspirations.
• Judgment about correctness: idempotency, safe retries, failure handling, and the failure modes that only appear under load.
• Clear communication and good judgment in a remote, cross-functional team.

Requirements

• Work authorization required: Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future need for visa sponsorship.

Bonus Points

• Experience building or operating multi-region or data-residency-constrained systems.
• Experience with multi-tenant isolation at the data layer.
• Experience with biometric privacy regimes such as BIPA or GDPR, as an implementer.
• Experience in a SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similarly audited environment.
• Experience with identity, authentication, account recovery, fraud prevention, fintech, or security products.
• Strong production incident, observability, or reliability experience.

What We Value

• High ownership: You see what needs doing and do it.
• Technical judgment: You make systems simpler, safer, and easier to operate.
• Speed with care: We move quickly because attackers move quickly, but we do not cut corners on trust or security.
• Kindness and integrity: Trust starts with how we work with each other.

Compensation

Nametag is a founding member of the Open Imperative and is committed to pay equity in technology. Final compensation is based on role, level, skills, experience, and education. Your recruiter or hiring manager can share more during the process.

Culture and Benefits

• Nametag is a remote-first team with regular in-person time to stay connected.
• Remote-first, US-based team
• Quarterly team offsites
• Flexible schedules
• Meaningful equity ownership
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Flexible paid time off
• New computer hardware and equipment